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Calamity Jane 1852-1903
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Image above:
From a photograph
of Martha Canary, aka Calamity Jane, full-length
portrait, seated with rifle, captioned
Calamity Jane, Gen. Crook's scout
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Calamity Jane was born
Martha Jane Cannary,
or Canary. She married Mr. Clinton (Charley) Burke and became
Martha
Jane Burke.
Jane was born around 1852 and died in
1903. She lost her parents when she was quite
young.
Jane met
Wild Bill Hickok and might or might not have been
married to him. Juicy gossip insists that the two also had a child:
Jean Hickok
McCormick, born September 25, 1873.
Around 1876, Jane dressed up in men's
clothes and annoyed the tar out of the people of Deadwood, South
Dakota. She bragged about her marksmanship, her experiences as a pony-express rider, and
the time when she was a scout
for Lieutenant Colonel Custer.
JANE IN 1901
Jane loved to kick back a couple and
that was apparently the reason why she got fired from her job at the
Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York, in 1901.
Bill and Jane were buried next to
each other in Deadwood, South Dakota.
And this is Doris Day,
who gave her everything in the
1953 movie
Calamity Jane.
Go DD!
Calamity Jane With
Rifle, Part One
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Calamity Jane With
Rifle, The Return
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Calamity Jane With
Horse
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